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Sturges' mother was a much-married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim...
This Holmes is a kind of boy's man whose greatest joy is tinkering with his chemistry set. In musical terms, he is a drab, antiseptic, kissproof cousin of Henry Higgins. He has his brain on his brain, and he incessantly makes love to it in Fritz Weaver's croaking brand of talkee-singee-"just a loaf of bread and a cryptogram, this were paradise enow...
Finding vanity invincible, Hungary's Communist bosses recently opened state-owned beauty parlors in Budapest. Government-operated plants began to turn out face powder, creams, shampoos, etc. But the stuff was shoddy, the kissproof lipstick ran, and women went back to the black market. Last week, retreating but not beaten, state stores were selling "imported cosmetics" at up to twelve times the price of the local products. Even so, many were ersatz products wearing fake French and U.S. labels...
Married. Preston Sturges, 52, screen director (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), writer (Strictly Dishonorable), inventor (a kissproof lipstick); and Ann Margaret ("Sandy" Mellen) Nagle, 21, actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; at his restaurant in Hollywood...
...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...